Hi Everyone, are you getting into the christmas mood yet? I am. I finished my christmas shopping today (yay me!) and it was crazy at the mall. I almost got run over by this ultra trendy woman, geez! Anyway, I hope you guys like this chapter its action-packed as promised!

By dinner time a furious Professor Snape was threatening to give detentions out to anyone in the castle caught kissing, wether mistletoe-induced or not. Lee Jordan could be found shouting at anyone who would listen about what a git Snape was, (he had been caught earlier that afternoon giving Angelina Johnson a peck on the cheek and now had a week's worth of detention to fulfil) and Professor Flitwick was in disgrace and refused to leave his office. Inside the sound of bottles clinking together could be heard as well as a very old grammaphone playing a jazzed up version of "Santa Can You Hear Me".

Ginny had finally persuaded Hermione to come out of her room.

Hermione walked trepidatiously down the stairs and into the Gryffindor common room followed by Ginny who was presumably pushing her the entire way down.

Harry and Ron both got up when they saw her arrive.

"Hey Hermione," Harry said, "You okay?"

"Yeah, Mione, we were worried about you." said Ron sincerely, and leaning in to give her an extremely quick hug.

"I'm fine. I just needed to sort some things out, that's all." Hermione gave them a small smile.

They all seemed satisfied and soon they were chatting pleasantly as they made their way down to supper in the great hall.

An ever- annoyed Filch was still controlling the entrance to the great hall.

Everyone managed to get inside without further incident except for when they passed Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown they overhead them talking about Hermione

"What's wrong with her?" Parvati said, as she watched Hermione walk past, lead by Ginny on one side and Harry and Ron on the other.

"I suppose she's just upset Malfoy was her first snog, I mean, I wouldn't be if I was her, but…"

At that point Hermione whipped around and walked right up to Lavender and said,

"He was not my first snog, and you would probably be pretty miffed if your enemy stuck their tongue down your throat, so don't talk about things you know nothing about!"

Hermione flipped her abundant hair over her shoulder, and fell back in stride with her three friends.

Now it was time for everyone else to be quiet. Ginny and Harry and Ron hadn't known what had really happened between Hermione and Malfoy.

Harry and Ginny exchanged another worried glance and Ron couldn't stop mumbling to himself and clenching and unclenching his fists at his side.

It was therefore unsurprising that as soon as they had left the dining hall and they had come upon Malfoy chatting to some slytherin fifth years that Ron went straight up to him and punched him, hard, in the face.

Maloyfell bak onto the fifth yearsand cursed Ron as he was walking away. Hermione watched, horrified, as Ron stood up again with a gash on his cheek he ran back to Malfoy they began fighting. Harry and Ginny ran up to them and tried prising Ron off of Malfoy. What a bad time for an already angry Snape to arrive on the scene.

"Miss Weasley and Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley would you kindly desist from trying to rip one of my students limb from limb!"

Hermione tried to explain what was going on but Snape wouldn't listen.

"Miss Granger I can see what is going on here, for myself, so please keep that overactive mouth of yours shut."

Hermione closed her mouth. And blinked back tears at the snickers from the Slytherins who appreciated Snape's double entendre.

Meanwhile, Harry, Ginny, and an extremely red Ron were escorted out of the hall by Snape, presumably to his dungeon office to receive their detentions.

Malfoy, who had been the cause of all this trouble, was, in the mean time, being helped up by some slytherins looking as smug as ever.

Hermione couldn't stand it anymore.

She walked away from the crowded hall and waited until she had whipped around the corner before she began to run.

Bad Malfoy! Right! Okay, I hope you guys liked that chapter- just wait for the next one- its going to be the last and I will post it on Christmas Eve (tomorrow night!) if you guys review for this one.

Let me know what you thought, as always,

xxx-Bexie1217